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Spatial-Temporal Rainfall Modelling with Climate Change Scenarios

Software for download

This page contains links to software that has been developed as
part of FD2113 and related projects. Some of this software makes use of
other freely-available packages; links to these are also available below.

The software

Description

Download instructions

GLIMCLIM - software for modelling and simulation
of daily climate sequences at a network of sites, using Generalized
Linear Models

This is a zip archive containing all the software
necessary to implement the full FD2113 methodology at a single site.
Sample data files are also available, to enable users to
reproduce the analyses carried out in Project report no. 6.

1st May 2007: Please bear with us! The report
and software are almost complete ...

Required packages

Package name and description

Notes and download instructions

R - a statistical programming environment

Required to fit subdaily rainfall models, and used to produce
graphical displays of simulation results. Freely available for
a variety of platforms; download from http://www.R-project.org
(follow the CRAN
link under "Download").

WinBUGS and OpenBUGS - Bayesian
analysis using Gibbs Sampling

Required to fit hierarchical models accounting for climate model uncertainty.
WinBUGS is currently (effectively) free, although registration is
required. OpenBUGS is an open source version.
Although OpenBUGS has slightly reduced
functionality (add-ons have not been implemented), software
developed in FD2113 will run quite happily with either package.
Unfortunately however, it can only be used under
Windows since, although OpenBUGS has a
Linux implementation, the R interface
used in our software doesn't yet work under
Linux.